A hacker has loaded Leopard on a tiny OQO UMPC and claims it is the smallest …

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All the hubbub surrounding Psystar's Mac clones has renewed interest in "Hackintoshes," but running OS X on a generic PC box is so passé. Now, Mac OS X running on a tiny UMPC: that's interesting. TechRader notes that hacker "trf" managed to get Leopard running on his OQO e2, and it looks pretty slick.

Though several members of the OQOtalk forums thought the hack was an obvious fake, trf posted details about it, including a rather blurry YouTube video. The video shows the tiny device booting Leopard, as well as CoverFlow and Dashboard demos to quell doubts it was photochopped.

Though tfr has only gotten Leopard to work at a fixed 800x480 resolution and hasn't tried to get WWAN networking working, Mac OS X running at all on the VIA-based hardware is interesting nonetheless. Another curiosity is that OQO was founded by ex-Apple employees who left the company when their idea for an OQO-like device running OS X was supposedly shot down. Still, I wouldn't get your hopes all worked up for an iTablet anytime soon. If you really want one now, though, you could always figure out ways to hack your own (we do not condone the smashing of EULAs, though).